I just want to point out that recent court rulings on Alphabet’s business may threaten the future of Mozilla because they may not get revenue from making Google the default search engine.

Classical cynics loved to ridicule society and exalt nature. Modern cynics ridicule society and exalt themselves.

A cynic that owns a mortgage and a 401k is a bigger imposter than the tourist wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt in the Mall of America.

Israel has used explosives in communication devices for assassinations before. In '96 a West Bank bomb-maker was killed by 15g of explosives planted in his cellphone.

PICKLE N.I.C.!

Parody is hard when the truth is more absurd. Kim’s granddad had his favorite actors kidnapped and brought to N.Korea to make movies for him.

There was a time when feeling suspicious about your victim was a defense called “gay panic” and several murderers got off that way.

The national suicide prevention hotline is almost always too busy and callers often need to wait on hold. They’ve calibrated everything from the hold music, the script, and the recorded voice to keep callers on the line.

This factoid splits people pretty evenly between those who find it horrifying and those who find it hilarious.

I should say that according to the hotline, the changes made to the hold system has resulted in 100,000 fewer hang-ups per year.

If the AI wanted to talk me out of conspiracy theories, why don’t they use the brain signals to control us to thinking that way? Do the microwaves from the circuits behind the walls all go out of service all of a sudden?

This is just classic silicon valley trying to “innovate”, when their real plan was to muscle out CIA and FBI work to non-union contractors.

This whole dust up is between MTG, L. Graham, and Loomer is just jealous office politics. Apparently, Loomer is on the rise while the former two are in decline around Trump’s orbit.

Now I won’t deny it’s fun to see the MTG and Graham beaten at their own game. But the only value to this story is knowing that there is chaos and backbiting in his inner circle.

artificial variety

lol sounds like forced diversity. So the imitation stuff is woke!

I wonder how many times she’s had to explain what an answering machine is.

Just wanna drop in to say that the people responsible for keeping the planes the planes from getting romantic on the ground are the same people who chaperone them in the air.

No, it’s stop innovating, build a monopoly, never change. The automotive industry (in Germany and the US) is just blue collar wall st. : too big to fail.

Stop talking “free markets” when the competition is taxed at 40%

This reasoning doesn’t make sense unless Trump loses. How can sentencing the POTUS be any less fraught than sentencing a candidate? The judge is a coward with at least two rulings in his back pocket depending on the outcome of the election.

I read once that Holocaust research causes three distinct traumas. One is where you realize that it really happened to real people. Two is when you empathize with the victims and can visualize yourself of loved ones in that position. Three is when you empathize with the perpetrators and can visualize yourself or loved ones in that position.

It’s natural for children to believe that good people do good things and bad do bad, but that opinion can’t survive into adulthood without profound lack of self awareness.

OK, it was hard enough to care about the decorum at Arlington, now I have to champion the Pentagon’s censorship rules? Miss me with this shit.

This isn’t about “stolen valor”. The candidate was a Seal. He just wrote a book about it without asking the pentagon “mother may I” first.

This is silly. Do you really think censoring shooter’s names is going to do jack shit? Name the parkland shooter, or the Walmart shooter in Texas. I bet you can’t. I know the average American can’t.

This is an attractive idea because it gives us agency to punish these people somehow. We see them get wall-to-wall media coverage and incorrectly assume that’s the motivation because it’s hard to imagine shooting kids for any reason and the media coverage is the most available effect to us.

If that’s not convincing, then just know that Tucker Carlson agrees with you.

You know, it’s perfectly OK to group voters by identity, so long as that identity cannot exclude “Normal” people. Soccer Mom, Six pack Dad, Middle class, working poor, labor, Small Business owner, Rural, Urban, and Suburban are all perfectly fine to promise these groups political power. But you do the exact same thing for queer people or black people and that’s identity politics all of a sudden.

The idea of a political center is a reification of the spectrum political model. These people aren’t centrists because they’ve formed a ideology, they’re centrists because they accept convention like an RPG player who takes the default hero and skips character creation.